This is our new baby, Emily Kate! Isn't she gorgeous!
Emily Kate is a real live baby elephant, who lives with her family in Amboseli National Park in Kenya. She is the youngest in the EB family and her mother, Echo, who was an amazing 55 years of age when she gave birth to her, is the matriarch of the herd. Echo and her family were made famous a few years ago by a major television series all about her and her family and elephant ways.
My beloved adopted her for me from the Born Free Foundation and the money that we pay will go toward helping her to stay safe and grow up in a family where her, her family and other families like hers, will hopefully not be killed by poachers and where her environment will be protected.
Emily was born on 3rd august 2000 and weighed around 100kg! She was named by the actor and patron of the Born Free Foundation, Martin Clunes, after his own baby daughter.
Emily Kate will rely on her mothers milk for about four years. After that, as an adult, she will consume around 200kg of grass, leaves and shrubs everyday.
Elefriends, a part of the Bornfree Foundation, helped ensure the first international ivory ban in 1989 and campaigns against attempts to re-open trade. Elefriends investigates poaching and exposes illegal ivory smuggling.
Elefriends supports wildlife rangers and guards in Tanzania and Congo as they protect wild elephants and other animals from poachers and fund the work of elephant expert Cynthia Moss as she monitors elephants in Amboseli, Kenya, the world's longest study of wild African elephants.
They returned to the wild, Nina the elephant, supported by Born Free patron Martin Clunes, featured in a BBC TV special.
They also fund the long term care of Asian elephants rescued from lives of misery in zoos and circuses, at the Tennessee Elephant Sanctuary, USA and are Investigating the exploitation of zoo and circus elephants throughout the world.
Click the link below to see what you can do for the elephants and maybe adopt Emily Kate or others like her yourself. |